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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Pen and ink sheet with figure studies: a female nude, a man's legs in boots, a torso, and hands, on a stained paper ground.

Studies of Female Nude, Hands, and Male Torso (recto); Landscape (verso)

Engraving of a nude woman with long hair stepping beside a stream, framed by dense trees and foliage.

Musidora

Asher Brown Durand, 1825

Engraving of a muscular classical statue of Hercules with a lion skin and a child, on a pedestal with inscription.

The Emperor Commodus as Hercules

Hendrick Goltzius, 1592

Engraved title page with a central cartouche flanked by a laurel-crowned man and a spear-holding woman, with an eagle and dog

Title to Topographia Variarum Regionum

Simon Frisius, 1611

Engraving of a nude woman nursing an infant on rocks, with a castle town and a lion in the background.

The Penance of Saint John Chrysostom

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1496

Engraving of a nude woman balancing on a sphere, holding a thistle stalk, with a cloth draped behind her.

The Little Fortune

Albrecht Dürer, 1495-96

Engraving of a nude witch with flying hair riding a bull, accompanied by three winged putti against a sparse landscape.

The Witch

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1500

Engraving of a bearded Christ with a cross staff and radiating light, beside nude figures and a dragon in an arched doorway.

Christ in Limbo (reverse copy)

Engraving of Christ in an arched gateway trampling a demon, with two nude figures at left and a dragon above.

Christ in Limbo, from "The Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1512

Circular engraving of three nude women before a bearded man holding an apple, with a fallen armored figure and castle behind.

Judgment of Paris

Alois Petrak, 19th century

Etching of a crouched woman in a cap and cloak beside a gnarled tree trunk, with dense hatched shading.

A Woman Making Water

Rembrandt van Rijn, late 18th/early 19th century

Engraving of two nude shepherds beneath a tree, one bearded holding a wreath, the other holding pipes, with goats resting nea

Two Nude Shepherds

Lucas Vorsterman, 17th century

Etching of a nude man seated on the ground, leg extended, leaning against a shadowed wall, signed Rembrandt 1646.

Study from the Nude: Man Seated on Ground, with One Leg Extended

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1646

Etching of a seated nude man and a standing figure in an interior, with a woman and baby faintly visible by a hearth.

Nude Man Seated and Another Standing, with a Woman and a Baby Lightly Etched in Background

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1646

Etching of a half-dressed woman seated beside an ornate tiled stove in a dim interior, by Rembrandt, 1658.

Woman Sitting Half-Dressed beside a Stove

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1658

Etching of a seated nude woman with bowed head, a draped cloth on her lap, and a hat on a chair behind her.

Woman at the Bath with a Hat beside Her

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1658

Etching of a nude woman seated and bending to wash her feet, with a cloth and headscarf, against a dark crosshatched backgrou

Woman Bathing Her Feet at a Brook

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1658

Engraving of a crowded kitchen with men feasting around a laden table, a nursing woman, hanging meats and a dog.

The Fat Kitchen

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563

Hand-coloured caricature of a dandy with monocle and powdered wig gesturing toward a woman in a white bonnet and gown.

Buck's Beauty and Rowlandson's Connoisseur

Piercy Roberts, January 1, 1800

Engraving of a fallen youth beneath a tree, a draped woman reaching out, a boar and cupids in a hilly landscape.

Death of Adonis

Hand-coloured print of women in furs fleeing an icy skeletal frost figure while a man in a greatcoat watches beside bare tree

A Naked Truth, or Nipping Frost

Charles Williams, February 2, 1803

Engraving of Cupid bound to a tree among many nude figures in an Elysian landscape, with a flying figure above.

Cupid in the Elysian Fields tied to a tree in the center, surrounded by many figures

Giulio Bonasone, 1563

Engraving of a sun-god driving a horse chariot through clouds, with a reclining nude couple and a putto below.

An allegory of the rising sun, a naked man wearing a shroud and accompanied Father Time is being drawn by horses

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of a bacchanal procession of children riding a horse and elephant with lions, before a landscape with a tree and vi

A children's bacchanal with animals

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of nude Pluto and Proserpine embracing beneath drapery while a winged putto restrains a three-headed dog.

Pluto and Proserpine, from "The Loves of the Gods"

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1531-76

Engraving of an eagle above a tree, a bearded man holding an infant, a winged figure and a reclining woman in a landscape.

The Birth of Bacchus, from "The Loves of the Gods"

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1531-76

Engraving of a nude woman holding drapery as a nude man embraces her beside a bed, with a winged figure above.

Two lovers, a man pulling a woman toward a bed, from "The Loves of the Gods"

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-60

Engraving of Apollo behind a seated nude woman painting at an easel, with a putto painting on the canvas and another beside i

Apollo standing a beside a woman representing an allegory of painting, from "The Loves of the Gods"

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-60

Engraved title plate with classical architecture, a helmeted warrior woman, a nude male figure with a caduceus, and the title

Title plate to "Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno"

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of a nude woman suspended in air by her raised arms, framed by ornate decoration, cherubs and Italian verse below.

Juno suspended in the air, set within a frame, from "Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno"

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76